Integration of North Carolina Schools

By Kelly Icard

  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board overturns Plessy v. Ferguson making all states have to desegregate

  • Special Advisory Committee

    Governor William B Umstead created the Governor's Special Advisory Committee on Education

  • Luther Hodges

    Luther Hodges becomes governor and orders new committee to study the issue.

  • Supreme Court

    Supreme Court holds more than 200 desegregation cases.

  • Billy Gram

    Religous figure Billy Gram wrote letters to the president regarding the issue of intragation of public schools

  • Madge Hopkins

    Activist in intragating NC school

  • Swann V. Charolette Meclemburg

    Fight to Intragate NC schools

  • US Supreme Court

    US Supreme Court orders all Charolette Schools to desegragate.

  • Intragated

    By 1972 all North Carolina Schools met the Supreme Courts requierments.